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In the FAQ's about Spam this line of text appears.

Use [email protected] as your reply Email whenever you don't know who will be seeing your address.

I don't understand what is or how to use the "invalid.email@sonic,net" reply. Can anyone explain this please?

Thank you and regards,

Willt

Use it to configure your email program or other client software that requires an email address. Where you'd normally type "[email protected]" type the string above.

This is most commonly done with Usenet, where people routinely munge their email addresses so that spambots cannot harvest them.

Okay,

Thank you for your reply to my question.

If I configured my email program that way would everyone I send an email to see the [email protected] as the sender? I wouldn't want that because most people I send email to would not understand and simply delete the mail thinking it was spam.

Yes, that's exactly what would happen. I wouldn't recommend it in your email program; however, if there's another place where you are expected to provide an email address but don't want to reveal yours (at least not such that a 'bot could harvest it), the bogus address is a good one to use.

I see,

Thank you.